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I agree with this, in-person exams are not the panacea for AI-cheating, it's the Bunny Colvin solution - just moving the problem outside the area we police...

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For Pride we wrote a thing about our Rainbow Office Hours initiative, where LGBTQ staff hold drop-in hours, and why it's more important than ever that our queer students and colleagues, but particularly those who are trans and non-binary, know who they are safe with. #AcademicSky #EduSky

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Richard Harris’ brother, Ivan, used to run the shop in my estate when I was a kid, Richard would be in there for a chat every now & then, as kids we didn’t know who he was; now when the actor who played George on Glenroe was in there one Sunday the excitement was off the charts…

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These must be just centrist pograms then

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I got literally BEATEN to the ground WITH A TRICOLOUR almost 5 years ago. Mick Clifford went to the next far-right protest & wrote his most derided opinion piece. He never expressed horror at this use of "our flag" as an actual weapon. But NOW he wants the flag back. 😂

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This is a documentary on the Irish channel TG4 about how me and my family became refugees in Ireland and of the toll the Russian invasion has taken on our lives. It's in Irish with English subtitles. Available worldwide! www.tg4.ie/en/player/ca...

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I've been thinking a lot about the "LLMs are weird computers" frame for thinking about LLMs and it's clarifying for things like this.

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Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state Keep that same energy of support for her

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Meta launched a stand-alone AI app and now it is full of sensitive content from Facebook users who appear to be unaware that they have made their conversations public: www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerb...

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there’s a reason bluesky is a retirement home for millennial posters - we grew up before algorithms and were not used to having content shoved in our faces unasked for we chose to click on those terrible threads ourselves

submitted 4 days ago • 131 comments

Replacing US support to Ukraine will be hard but Europe has options to mitigate the impact, says @lscazzieri.bsky.social. ➡️Buying equipment for Kyiv from the US ➡️Ramping up production in Europe & Ukraine ➡️Investing in missing capabilities. 🔗 ow.ly/26ua50W8au6

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A really good question, why are trans people so rarely given a voice in Irish media? Oh I see, that's not what you meant.

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"The real threat posed by generative AI is not that it will eliminate work on a mass scale, rendering human labour obsolete. It is that, left unchecked, it will continue to transform work in ways that deepen precarity, intensify surveillance, and widen existing inequalities."

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

It's almost as if this is what crypto currencies are designed for.

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I gave an interview to The Clare Champion about my new book, "Unfinished Empire". In my native county, we are all on first name terms.

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Cycling in Dublin 1974. That's over 50 years ago. 😱 But it was the winner back then too! @feljin.ie @dublincycling.bsky.social @irishcycle.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX4M...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Still waiting for the article that’s like “these right wing militia members are in a bubble and it would be healthier if they exposed themselves to left wing ideas”

submitted 8 days ago • 162 comments

A thread in which Marc nails the vibe of Brendan the Dublin AI guide.

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

is the entire thing a weird troll? fascinated by some of the choices on display there - this one is ideal if the message you want to send is "I fucked the groom, and I'll try to do it again tonight if you're not careful"

submitted 10 days ago • 58 comments

In a democracy, should the question we ask ourselves be "Am I better off?" What about "are other people better off?" "Are the laws fair?" "Are we more secure?" "Are we trashing the planet for the future?" The left, in particular, should be really wary of transactional framings of democracy. 1/3

submitted 10 days ago • 22 comments

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

submitted 11 days ago • 533 comments

Anyone know where Kevin Bacon's left his car keys? Asking for a friend of a friend of a friend of friend of a friend.

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🚨Special sub-section continues with Yee-Kuang Heng, discussing combined military exercises and their potential connecting the Atlantic and the Indo-Pacific.⬇️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #AcademicPublishing #AcademicSky #InternationalSecurity #InternationalRelations

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I think this is such a major driver of AI use in university assessments. And also just a real… disconnection between why we think students are here (to learn about history!) and why students think they are here (to get good grades, to get a job)

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A definition of White British which, aside from everything else, includes Gerry Adams but excludes King Charles.

submitted 12 days ago • 36 comments

Why is climate mitigation too expensive, but AI is an arms race to burn resources?

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

You might need local context to understand the double meaning here. 🙏

submitted 16 days ago • 8 comments

all I see is this

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Fully agree with Blayne here, this message is tone deaf at best, there is no way the US is a safe venue for many colleagues, particularly trans colleagues & those who require visas, @isanet.bsky.social really needs to reflect on whether it’s the International Studies Association or a national org!

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Nature ran a piece finding that 25 million people could die as a result of ending USAID. This puts Trump and Musk in the category of the most brutal leaders of the 20th century in terms of unnecessary lives lost. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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I merely note “Rob’s trade-war column” scans perfectly into The Undertones’ “My Perfect Cousin”. Just saying.

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This should be interesting. www.eventbrite.com/e/west-cork-...

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Reactionaries hate universities because they create open-minded liberated people open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

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My new book "Unfinished Empire" was launched by the Minister for European Affairs and Defence who said: "Let us all take stock of the Professor’s work, and gain valuable insights from it, on how we can ensure that Putin’s imperial ambitions are never realised" More here: www.dcu.ie/humanities-a...

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Whoever made this deserves a medal.

submitted 18 days ago • 365 comments

intake of breath Ciaran Mullooly used AI to write a letter to Ursula von der Leyen about EU aid to Gaza, quoting Swedish House Mafia and including a story about a fake girl. collapses www.thejournal.ie/ciaran-mullo...

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It's over two centuries since bicycles became a familiar site in Eurooe. It's taken that long for CarBrain opinion havers in our pundit ecosystem to notice the low amount of noise they make and declare that a "cultural problem". Premium content as always.

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Prof Donnacha Ó Beacháin - Professor of Politics with the DCU School of Law & Government - is officially launching his new book ‘Unfinished Empire - Russian Imperialism in Ukraine and Near Abroad’ - this evening in the Royal Irish Academy. Book now available for purchase @donnachadcu.bsky.social

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Irish ocean racer Pamela Lee involved in dramatic night rescue of fellow competitor boat sliced in two by a cargo ship, abandoning her race to go to their aid. www.instagram.com/p/DKM9S9NMp7...

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"A well-delivered lecture isn’t primarily a delivery system for information. It is an ignition point for curiosity, all the better for being experienced in an audience." Marvellous defence of the increasingly maligned university experience by @patporter76.bsky.social thecritic.co.uk/university-a...

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"Tech evangelists may be dazzled by the promise of AI, but two well-designed new studies — one in China and one by a leading AI company — signal trouble ahead."

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